Dag-Erling Smørgrav
fb86d10eff
Consistently credit President Truman as Harry S. Truman.
2004-06-01 09:45:16 +00:00
Doug Barton
f4d7361ecf
Update the "All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten" entry
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by using the text from the Villard Books edition (1989, pages 6 through
8) and formatting to fit in 72 columns.
2004-06-01 05:00:46 +00:00
Doug Barton
afe8bb313c
* Reformat several attributions according to ../Notes (mostly whitespace)
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* Spell out some names that were pointlessly abbreviated
* Remove a couple of incidental duplicates
* Harry Truman had no actual middle name. The initial "S" was added to his
name to make him appear more statesmanlike. Therefore it's not usually punctuated.
* Format a couple of actual fortunes to fit into 72 columns
2004-06-01 04:32:11 +00:00
Doug Barton
7934cbe0d3
Remove duplicates of the "wherever you go, there you are" fortune,
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quote directly from the movie, and give a better attribution (with
correct spelling) for Buckaroo Banzai.
2004-06-01 00:16:32 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
7aab90d5f7
Definition of recursion.
2004-05-25 19:15:02 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
3231abbd6d
Added forgotten quotes for citations.
2004-05-20 08:15:58 +00:00
Tony Finch
a27113d965
I *knew* it would be a bad idea to touch the fortunes. *sigh*
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Submitted by: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Pointy hat to: me, again
2004-05-11 17:43:36 +00:00
Tony Finch
00b1a2a12f
Pedantry.
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Submitted by: njl@
2004-05-11 17:26:16 +00:00
Tony Finch
aa0bdecb75
On the signs of network congestion.
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Submitted by: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
2004-05-11 10:00:14 +00:00
Tony Finch
fffbf07a36
Re-sort
2004-05-10 23:02:07 +00:00
Tony Finch
7475c308d4
Moore's law vs. Nethack
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Submitted by: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
2004-05-10 23:00:26 +00:00
Colin Percival
9a34ab29f0
Fix grammar to make it correctly wrong.
2004-04-29 06:14:00 +00:00
Sean Kelly
57268cd141
Add a new fortune from petef.
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Obtained from: petef
2004-04-29 04:36:36 +00:00
Warner Losh
4bb464ddb9
Add jerk city commentary on C++.
2004-04-27 22:32:02 +00:00
Greg Lehey
6a9114196c
Add a Dijkstra comment on programming languages.
2004-04-21 22:39:46 +00:00
Ceri Davies
14f166b706
Don peril-sensitive sunglasses and correct the spelling of ukulele.
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"Ukulele" is the canonical term, with "ukelele" being a derivation.
Also there is some evidence that the original appearance of the quote
had the spelling "ukulele", although anyone who has a copy of Esquire
from March 1967 is welcome to prove me wrong.
PR: bin/65626
Submitted by: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
2004-04-20 19:20:17 +00:00
Greg Lehey
b0487aaa20
Add an observation by Dijkstra software engineering.
2004-03-22 05:02:01 +00:00
Colin Percival
25f718f0b7
Fix misspellings in the freebsd-tips fortunes. The same PR has
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a patch to mention portupgrade in freebsd-tips as well; I'm not
sure if that belongs here, so I'll leave it for someone else.
PR: misc/37073
Submitted by: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
2004-02-18 05:18:27 +00:00
Wes Peters
b2cbee8f60
Too good to miss.
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Wisdumb by: Danno Coppock <danno@ipinc.com>
2004-02-09 18:45:25 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
9c83887e23
"The Aged Aged Man" was not a word doubling.
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Spotted by: grog
2004-01-19 21:22:21 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
e65046462a
typo, duh!
2004-01-13 08:00:55 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6b073ad98d
This is simply too true to not become a fortune.
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Wisdom by: wes
2004-01-13 07:36:17 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
cf8dceeb43
Add a tip on how to print a manual page.
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PR: docs/61033
Submitted by: mi@
2004-01-07 19:49:12 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
d910ed771d
Fix all cases of unintended word doublings (the the, and and, ...) and a
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few typos.
2003-12-26 21:32:47 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
41ea5e4b77
A too good Feynman quote to pass up.
2003-12-07 10:03:20 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
5645e50570
Add a card carryring member of the Pointless Comparison Collection.
2003-11-12 20:08:47 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
094e585d1c
reformat HP eng. mgr quote
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Requested by: nate
2003-11-10 23:08:39 +00:00
Peter Pentchev
92797e8470
Fix a typo: 'in cloud' -> 'in a cloud'.
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PR: 58909
Submitted by: Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
MFC after: 1 week
2003-11-04 09:21:59 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b6f0aad2fb
Addition.
2003-10-20 21:22:41 +00:00
Tony Finch
32f3fff9ac
A comment about spam and cockroaches.
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Suggested by: dwmalone
2003-10-16 15:25:19 +00:00
Thomas Gellekum
f8aa6f0c29
Fix typo.
2003-10-15 10:25:31 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
9301f38e84
Correct a typo (s/And/An/)
2003-10-12 11:37:15 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
3319e41ce0
Removed "Gerat" which is a typo of "Great".
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Added FreeBSD ID.
2003-10-08 16:49:19 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
b3b86d2929
Retrocomputing alternate history....
2003-10-07 15:09:19 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
bebbcc8ef8
Polish last fortune.
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Suggested by: nate
2003-10-06 22:11:03 +00:00
Wilko Bulte
e95a20fe4f
'Upon the release of the second version'
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Suggested that this is fortune material: rene@tunix.nl
MFC after: 2 weeks
2003-10-06 19:34:35 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
2b4226712d
Fix spelling/grammar errors and remove a duplicate
2003-09-13 15:46:35 +00:00
Doug Barton
461722f0f2
* Fix a duplicate "how how"
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* Fix pedstals -> pedestals
2003-08-31 23:05:39 +00:00
Ceri Davies
994d89af83
Correct a grammatical error.
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PR: misc/54967
Submitted by: Paul A. Scott <pscott@the-frontier.org>
MFC After: 4 weeks
2003-08-25 20:08:16 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
90862ca23d
LANG->LC_ALL
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Pointed by: ru
2003-08-04 21:31:53 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
ca87b783b5
Use LANG=C before tr to be shure that ranges are correct
2003-08-04 15:31:57 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
5ab032d6c6
Fix a tip about how to create an empty file[1].
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Remove tip about retired kget(8).
Fix a typo.
PR: conf/54334
Submitted by: Mark Huizer <xaa+sendpr@timewasters.nl>
MFC after: 3 days
2003-08-02 20:36:28 +00:00
Maxime Henrion
42e271cf22
Remove a duplicate entry.
2003-07-25 11:14:03 +00:00
Matthew Hunt
87956a4441
Eliminate a duplicate.
2003-07-14 22:22:56 +00:00
John Baldwin
12008234da
Add a quote of wpaul@ explaining the importance of including requested
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content when replying to an e-mail.
2003-07-14 22:08:14 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
8a4b3625b6
Correct some typos.
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Submitted by: pscott@the-frontier.org
PR: misc/51909
MFC After: The average lifetime of a Star Trek redshirt
2003-07-13 03:49:43 +00:00
Gregory Sutter
f55ae2fa26
Remove near-duplicate entry, keeping the better attributed one.
2003-06-19 22:52:50 +00:00
Murray Stokely
16f4e196f2
In the build process, fortune files have been randomized since at
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least the 4.4-lite days. This is pointless, since fortune(6) performs
its own randomization. It was also problematic for binary update
systems such as ports/security/freebsd-update. This commit simply
removes the -r option to strfile so that the datfiles are constant.
Submitted by: Colin Percival <cperciva@sfu.ca>
2003-06-19 07:02:00 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
0eecaa8d98
Preserve an involunteerily joke SunCheckup has been providing.
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(NB: the space before the colon in the second line is authentic, please
don't remove.)
2003-06-18 12:46:20 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
f7f024d9cc
Fixup three rather minor typos that have irked me over time.
2003-05-31 16:27:53 +00:00